Announcing LinkedIn News, Redesigned Homepage & more — The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile.

LinkedIn Needs to ReachOut — Professional networking service LinkedIn wants to emulate Facebook's success by drawing users and applications through the use of a similar portal strategy. But LinkedIn's best chance at success lies in doing just the opposite: reaching out to other web sites and applications.

LinkedIn Announcement: The Good News and The Bad — LinkedIn, the holy grail for widget developers seeking to prove their software is serious, has taken some interesting steps towards a more social future in the release of some new features and discussion of their forthcoming API this morning.

NYTimes Surges, Cnet Slumps — Ever since the NYTimes.com swept away the last remaining boulders of its subscription pay wall (aka Times Select) in mid-September, its traffic has been going through the roof. According to comScore, it gained 7.5 million readers worldwide from the end …

Dude, My Bad: Buyers Forgive Facebook — Perhaps they are caught up in the holiday spirit, or maybe everybody loves a good mea culpa, but most digital media buyers are in a forgiving mood when it comes to Facebook's recent string of Beacon blunders. — Buyers say they are generally satisfied …

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Apple Ultra-Portable MacBook Rumor Roundup — As rumors start to build for Macworld San Francisco 2008, the most consistent rumor appears to be one of an ultra-portable Apple notebook computer. — These rumors started back in March 2006 by MacScoop who indicated that "very reliable" …

Coming Soon To NewTeeVee: 'Scoop' About Tiny Startups? — YouAre.tv is a tiny video site — 56,000 pageviews last month — trying to sell itself on eBay: starting bid $25,000. The company plans to talk itself up at tonight's NY Video 2.0 meetup at the Roosevelt Hotel, and co-founder/CEO David Dundas has a …

The Engadget Interview: Peter Chou, CEO of HTC — If you were to make a shortlist of Engadget's most sought after executives, Peter Chou, CEO of the most advanced cellphone manufacturer in the world, HTC, would be right near the top. We finally got a chance to sit down with the man …